The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 16
The prince at once seized the opening thus given him, and told the whole story of his treatment by the Princess of Bengal, not even concealing the fact that she had fallen in love with him. "
Who acts: prince, opening, Bengal · What happens: seize, give, tell, not conceal, fall, treat · To what, where: opening, Prince, whole story, fact, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, opening, Bengal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 seized | obl |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 opening | det |
| 7 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 given | advmod |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 opening | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 story | amod |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 treatment | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 19 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | nmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Bengal | case |
| 24 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Princess | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 concealing | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 concealing | advmod |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 concealing | advmod |
| 28 | concealing | conceal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 told | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fact | det |
| 30 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 concealing | obj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 fallen | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fallen | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallen | aux |
| 34 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 concealing | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 love | case |
| 36 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fallen | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fallen | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the prince | the opening | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the opening not said here | Prince | thus property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | the whole story of Prince's treatment | by the Princess of Bengal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 4 | not conceal | gerund | the prince not said here | the fact | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | Bengal | love | with Prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 6 | treat | Prince | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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